The Basics of Highlighting Bible Verses

There are multiple ways to highlight Bible Verses, Let’s get Creative!

Let’s face it, we spend most of our journaling time on very creative illustrations/graphics/images and even hand lettering, but when it comes to highlighting the bible verses, there isn’t much creative instruction out there to change things up. Until now, that is.

When highlighting Bible verses you need to take into consideration the following:

Always test new products in an inconspicuous area near the back to determine if they are going to smear the type, or bleed through the paper.

The age of your Bibles may determine the different mediums that work well for you, since the ink in older Bibles will not smear like the ink in new Bibles, if you are using a hard core colored pencil.

Transparent Gel Crayons that are creamy and transparent, that let the print shine through, usually work well, but some brands literally melt and smear the type in freshly printed Bibles.

Products that have glitter or are metallic are usually hard to read through.

Please watch this quick 30 second tutorial video of the “Casual 45* Angle Technique” and then browse through the variety of photos below to get ideas for your highlighting weekend!

Finally, go back to the Facebook Highlight Party Post and post your pictures and any questions you may have. Posting is half the fun of CBJ, as it’s the way we “Share our Art, Share our Heart” Click to go to CBJ Facebook Highlight Party

“Casual 45* Angle Technique” + “Doodle Embellishments”

Casual 45* Angle Technique + Doodle, Psalms 98

Casual 45* Angle Technique + Simple Doodle

Casual 45* Angle Technique + Flower Doodle

Casual 45* Angle Technique + Doodle. You can always add small doodles to illustrate the verse without doing full tilt artwork.

A rainbow fade, using Gel Highlighters, then baby wipe to blend, then a paper towel to burnish the “tackiness” off of the page.

Blended highlights with Colored Pencils + Doodles

“REVERSE HIGHLIGHT” + “Doodles”

Reverse Highlighting, You can highlight a verse by coloring AROUND the verse, so the words stand on their own. This works particularly well in Red Letter Bibles where coloring over the words can make them hard to read.

“Combining highlights with page artwork”

You can bring other elements of art from the page into your highlight border design. (Joan Fudala)

For Additional Examples of using “In-Line Art” for highlighting Bible verses.

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I Am So In Love With The Blend And Fade Technique It’s Actually A Very Gloomy Day Here In Louisiana With Rain .. I Think I May Try Some Of These The Angle And Also The Blend ..

Anonymoussays:

What an awesome idea, I am probably a highlighter addict, in all of my books, and i would love to be able to get a little bit more creative. So thank you!
P.S. I have never b4 left any input on much of anything, but this was just so brilliant, so thank you again!

I’m thrilled you liked our highlighting tips! Have you watched the 30 second video that Jackie named “The 45* Angle Technique”… shows how to easily make the highlighted verse look a part of the artwork, rather than an “after-thought”.

I can’t tell your name, as you may not have signed in when you responded, as it says “someone” instead of the subscriber name. I hope you are apart of our Facebook group, as that is where we have daily activities and loads of fun. http://Www.facebook.com/groups/CbibleJ/

Jaynesays:

Thanks, love all the ideas and suggestions! Always looking for new things to add
to my bible.

Jayne, thanks for checking out the Highlighting the Verse Blog Post. We had a “Highlighting Party” a few weeks ago in our Facebook Group. Are you a member there? It’s where we “share our art & share our hearts”.

Heidisays:

What a great idea.
I hadn’t thought of Creatively highlighting key Scripture’s.
Thank you.

Heidi, I’m glad you liked this article and the techniques presented. Last weekend we had a “highlighting party” in our Facebook group. Are you a FB member? If not, just click on this link http://www.facebook.com/groups/CbibleJ/ to join.

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